MONEY FIXES EVERYTHING

Tim Blair

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Tuesday,
November,
13,
2012,(9:35am)

First, it has allowed a gang of predatory paedophiles – including probably its biggest-ever children’s star – to operate with impunity on its premises over a period of three or four decades. Then, just to keep things fair and balanced I suppose, it has libellously exposed as a predatory paedophile an entirely blameless man. These are the kind of catastrophic errors of judgment which, in the private sector, would lead to many heads rolling – and quite possibly the closure of the organisation. (Look at what happened to the News of the World). This won’t happen at the BBC …

The BBC is like the NHS. Everyone knows in their head that it’s crap and should have been buried long ago. But their hearts keep telling them its a national treasure which deserves to be kept on a life-support machine, no matter what, till the end of time.

The organisation is now under pressure over its decision to pay former Director General George Entwistle £450,000 following his resignation after just 54 days in the job. Damian Thompson:

The shocking thing about Entwistle’s Today programme interview was the muddle-headed mediocrity it revealed – could this man really be CEO of the world’s most respected broadcasting corporation? We don’t know exactly why the nominally Tory Patten chose him, but the clear signal it sent out was that this was business as usual. That is: smug, haughty liberalism. And we’ll get more of the same from Entwistle’s successor – unless the BBC Trust acquires a chairman in touch with public opinion.

Not a chance. Speaking of business as usual, here’s one of BBC Newsnight‘s regular anchors:

Jeremy Paxman, in a statement released through his agents at Capel & Land, blamed budget cuts for failing standards.

Yes. Because the BBC’s decision not to offer an accused man the right of reply would have been remedied by more public money.

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There are two excuses offered by the press for their mistakes: “competitive pressure” is the most popular in the US; “budget cuts” is the other. Often they are employed in tandem, as howlingly obvious errors and malicious lies are written off as the result of a “rush to beat the competition without sufficient resources to ensure accuracy”.

One major error in this article: there are no “world’s most respected broadcasting corporation"(s). There are only ones which have no respect and ones that have fooled a majority of their viewers. By the way, since Mark Thompson was actually the CEO during most of the scandal, is he still going to head the New York Times? Now there is one of the world’s least respected news organizations.

My local NPR station (WABE) is just as pleased as punch that they have purchased and are presenting an hour of BBC’s ‘News of the World’ every afternoon. Quite the point of pride with the management, mentioned with approbation at every occasion during their recent pledge drive.

So I guess local contributors to ‘ABE can take pride themselves, knowing that some fraction of their money will eventually find its way into the pockets of the child-victims of the BBC’s pervs.

When Ross McEwan was given a £3.2m golden handshake by RBS (which incidentally was also with taxpayers’ money) he hadn’t even worked a single hour there. Yet because Entwistle worked for the BBC, he’s fair game.

Actually from the outside, a lot of this looks like the hawks circling because commercial interests hate the BBC and want to see it destroyed. We’ve seen similar rumblings in Australia and it was stated policy in the US Presidential election to cut public broadcasting loose.
If the BBC is cut a thousand times, it would certainly make the Tory-Lapdog coalition think about selling it or dismantling it. That seems to be the unwritten agenda here.

If Tony Abbott hadn’t worn speedos when he was with the Surf Lifesavers, none of this would have happened. It subsequently led to him hating women and as a result of this the BBC named the wrong man.

These are the kind of catastrophic errors of judgment which, in the private sector, would lead to many heads rolling – and quite possibly the closure of the organisation. (Look at what happened to the News of the World).

Good point Delingpole makes there. Did News of the World ever do anything as bad as the known BBC crimes? I think not.

Imagine - the BBC, that viciously propagandises against Israel, won’t release the Balen report on anti Semitism in its own ranks, sneers against America, promotes global warming, covered up for Jimmy Savile - accusing an innocent man of pedophilia?
All in a day’s work.

Chris Patten , in charge of the BBC trust, used to be EU commissioner, playing a prominent part in setting up Eurabia:

“Over the past three decades, the EEC and the EU’s political and cultural organizations have invented a fantasy Islamic civilization and history. The historical record of violations of basic human rights for all non- Muslims and women under sharia (Islamic Law) is either ignored or dismissed. In this worldview the only dangers come from the United States and Israel. The creators of Eurabia have conducted a successful propaganda campaign against these two countries in the European media. This fabrication was made easier by pre-existing currents of anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism in parts of Europe, although both sentiments have been greatly inflated by Eurabians and their collaborators.

On January 31, 2001, with the recrudescence of Palestinian terrorist jihad, European Foreign Affairs Commissioner Chris Patten declared to the European Parliament that Europe’s foreign policy should give special attention to its southern flank (the Arab countries, in EU jargon), adding that he was delighted by the general agreement to give greater visibility to the Mediterranean Partnership.

Bat Ye’or thinks that “Our politicians are perfectly informed of Islamic history and current policies by their embassies, agents and specialists. There is no innocence there, but tremendous inflexibility in corruption, cynicism and the perversion of values.” click

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